Anthropology

  Details: What is sociology? Simply, it is the study of how society functions, or in some cases, does not function. Various competing schools of sociology have attempted to fit observations of social phenomena into different conceptual systems. This book traces the origins of these systems from Enlightenment thought and...

    Details: The 30 selections in this volume reflect the notable trends and accomplishments in American anthropology during the closing decades of the millennium.  

   

   

  Part Number: Reinforced binding Reinforced binding Details: Product DescriptionAn encyclopaedic survey of political revolutions, covering three centuries; In addition to substantial essay-length entries, Political Revolutions features sidebars and timelines, a chronology, bibliography, primary documents source, and appendices McNeese and Crompton examine the origins and nature of selected political revolutions...

  Details: Product Description Modern European Criticism and Theory offers the reader a comprehensive critical overview of the widespread and profound contest of ideas within European 'theory'. The book focuses primarily on the thought of major voices in poetics, philosophy, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, as well as in literary and cultural...

  Brand: Pluto Press (UK) Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 232 Release Date: 01-01-2001 Details: Contributors to this volume take issue with the 'idealist' approach in which land and landscape - place and space - are read as purely expressive and ultimately poetic. They argue that too much emphasis on...

   

   

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    Details: Landmarks addresses a wide range of questions relevant to the recent history of anthropology and its importance to contemporary issues. These questions include the significance of anthropology for Third World studies; the debate on whether anthropology is a scientific or a humanistic subject; anthropology as a means...

  Details: Anthropologists now argue that their perspectives help those in the North understand themselves in a world that is experiencing profound changes. In exploring this argument what emerges from this work is a multilayered complexity of political relations which include symbols and rituals associated with political action. The emergent...

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    Details: This is a study of the genesis, evolution, adaptation and subordination of the Kikuyu squatter labourers, who comprised the majority of resident labourers on settler plantations and estates in the Rift Valley Province of the White Highlands. The story of the squatter presence in the White Highlands...

   

   

       

  Brand: Duke University Press Binding: Paperback Format: Import Number Of Pages: 320 Release Date: 24-07-2000 Details: Presents essays that explore how sexuality and sexual identity change when individuals, ideologies, and media move across literal and figurative boundaries. Illuminating the complex nature of queerness in the post-modern world, this book...

   

    Details: To meet the needs of the rapidly changing world of health care, future physicans and health care providers will need to be trained to become wiser scientists and humanists in order to understand the social and moral as well as technological aspects of health and illness. The...

  Details: Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of this rich and accessible study of popular Hinduism...

Author: Stanford AllenBrand: PearsonEdition: 3Binding: paperbackNumber Of Pages: 640Release Date: 01-12-2011Details: Brand NewEAN: 9788120344488Package Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.9 inchesLanguages: English

9789353949600, ANTHROPOLOGY | FIFTEENTH EDITION, PEARSON INDIA,Peter N. Peregrine Carol R. Ember, Melvin R. Ember